Past tense of recollect
regular verb
The past tense of recollect is recollected. The past participle is also recollected.
Forms of recollect
| Base form (V1) | recollect /ɹɛkəˈlɛkt/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | recollected |
| Past participle (V3) | recollected |
| Present participle | recollecting |
| Third person singular | recollects |
Recollected in a sentence
- My hand was lifted at her door to knock, when I recollected the smallness of the island.1904, Jack London, chapter 32, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC. From the entry smallness
- O’Donnell sounded world-weary as he recollected trying to sustain strategies for big issues through games of ministerial musical chairs.2026 June 22, Tom Clark, “The ungovernable country? Why Britain keeps losing prime ministers”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry musical chairs
- Then he recollected his sophistication to say: "Unless its being of that particular shade between brown and red was wrong."2007, W. D. Howells, Between the Dark and the Daylight, →ISBN, page 68. From the entry simple-heartedly
- He recollected a gentleman in Admont who had a dog that gave birth to five young, three of which were cretinic, the other two feeble.1906, Veterinary Journal and Annals of Comparative Pathology, page 260. From the entry cretinic
Meaning of recollect
- verb To recall; to collect one's thoughts again, especially about past events.
- verb To collect (things) together again.
- verb To compose oneself.
Questions about the past tense of recollect
- What is the past tense of recollect?
- The past tense of recollect is recollected.
- What is the past participle of recollect?
- The past participle of recollect is recollected.
- Is recollect a regular or irregular verb?
- Recollect is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
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